Quotes About Metrics

Understanding variation is the key to success in quality and business.

That's the problem with so many organizations around entrepreneurship. They're driven by metrics that don't matter.

You'll never be able to really measure anything, right? Including teachers.

I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person.

If the statistics are boring, then you've got the wrong numbers.

I think the bottom line is wins and losses. That is probably the most important stat to look at.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

I think that, every time you saw the word EBITDA, you should substitute the word "bullshit" earnings.

Leadership means forming a team and working toward common objectives that are tied to time, metrics, and resources.

En todos lados, el mejoramiento ha sido interpretado como sinónimo de ahorro en costos. La gente se concentra en reducir el gasto de operación como si fuera el indicador mas importante.

When self-delusion and self-flattery enter the mind-set of a product team and the metrics they judge themselves by, like the first plague rat coming onto a ship, the end is practically preordained.

Instead of measuring military readiness in terms of overall size and numbers, we must focus on metrics of capability, particularly in technology, and positioning.

You have to have a certain realism that government is a pretty blunt instrument, and without the constant attention of highly qualified people with the right metrics, it will fall into not doing things very well.

I turned six in 1977. Youth athletics then was nothing like this, and I wondered how things changed so much. I started looking at our societal emphasis on sports, using the most tangible metric by which we measure emphasis: money.

In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that.

A great product is not only developed with a few requirements that are kept in mind but also with excellence in data science and all key metrics.

The heart of science is measurement.

Nearly every business collects metrics on inventory, sales, and workplace process. Health care has been slow to measure these kinds of outcomes. Increasingly, general medicine, via either managed care or large practice settings, is improving by collecting data through electronic records and refining practice based on what works.

we have no good metrics for a place's success in assisting people to live. By contrast, we have very precise ratings for health and safety. So you can guess what gets the attention from the people who run places for the elderly: whether Dad loses weight, skips his medications, or has a fall, not whether he's lonely.

Compounding matters, we have no good metrics for a place's success in assisting people to live. By contrast, we have very precise ratings for health and safety. So you can guess what gets the attention from the people who run places for the elderly: whether Dad loses weight, skips his medications, or has a fall, not whether he's lonely.

Ironically, the only two "relevan[t]" metrics that the Court does identify are "how and why" a gun control regulation "burden[s the] right to armed self-defense." In other words, the Court believes that the most relevant metrics of comparison are a regulation's means (how) and ends (why)—even as it rejects the utility of means-end scrutiny.

Baseball fans love numbers. They love to swirl them around their mouths like Bordeaux wine.

Vanity metrics wreak havoc because they prey on a weakness of the human mind.